Vagabond Footnotes

Last updated on 7/21/11. Major posts are marked with asterisks.

"Only the Faithless Suffer" (11/11/12)

"First World War Poetry (11/11/12)" (11/11/12)

"Life Is Cheap when Your Great Nation is Buying" (5/28/12)

"Paul Fussell (1924–2012)" (5/28/12)

***"They Could Not Look Me in the Eye Again" (11/11/11)

"Asymmetric Inhumanity" (5/30/11)

***"War and the Denial of Loss" (11/11/09)

"The Little Mother" (11/11/09)

***"Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels" (11/11/09)

"11/11 Armistice Day 2009" (11/11/09)

"The War Poetry of Wilfred Owen" (11/11/09)

"Demonizing the Enemy" (11/11/09)

"Élan in The Guns of August" (11/11/09)

"Heart of Darkness," focusing on PTSD. (7/29/09)

"11/11 Armistice Day 2008," featuring the war poetry of Siegfried Sassoon. (11/11/08)

"(Scared) Armadillos in Their Trousers" (6/2/08)

"The Hawks Descend on Burma" (5/29/08)

"Brave Cowboys of the Junior High Lunch Room" (5/29/08)

"Soldiers of Humanity," a Zen parable. (3/19/08)

***"The Poetry of War" (3/19/08)

***"Day of Shame," on Colin Powell's presentation to the U.N. (2/5/08)

***"How to Hear a True War Story" (5/29/07)

***"11/11 Armistice Day," featuring Walt Kelly's Pogo. (11/11/05)